“I think the key thing for him at the start of the season was he could never settle on the system he wanted to play. Unfortunately, because he is a good young manager and you want to see him be successful, it did not work out for him.”

Remi Garde succeeded Sherwood as the Villa manager, but the Frenchman failed to prevent the club from getting relegated to the Championship and he also parted company.

Subhankar Mondal

A football journalist based in Wakefield, Subhankar Mondal has previously worked for Goal.com International and Skysports.com, and has had his sports articles published in The Guardian and The Observer. He has also been on the BBC in the past and his name once found its way to the pages of the World Soccer magazine. He was recently cited in a major Louis van Gaal biography.